Railroad-rail.



A. R. CLINE.

RAILROAD RAIL. I PPPP IGATION FILED APR 5 N12.

1,042,201i M Patented 0ct.22, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Eetent.

Application filed April 192:?

Fatented @ct. 22,1912. Sex" .17. no. 688,552. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known, that l, ALBERT Come, a citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Railroad-Rails, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to improv the construction of railway rails, particularly for heavy traliic. by bifurcating the web of the rail some distance below the head so as to properly resist strains, at the same time allowing the rail to be coupled to a single web or T-rail by fish plates of the usual construction. I

In the accompanying drawing: Figure l, is a perspective view of a railway rail made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, is a sectional view of a rail, showing the fish plates in position; Fig; 3, is a sectional view through the single web of a. T-rail, with my improved rail in the distance, the section being also through the fish plates securing the two rails together; Fig. 4-, is a sectional View, showing my invention applied to a girder rail; Fig. 5, is a sectional View, showing my improved rail secured to a tie of a special form; and Fig. 6, is a sectional View, showing my invention applied to a connecting plate having a flange extending into the space in the rail.

Referrig to the drawing, A is the rail having a head a of the ordinary i -rail shape. Directly below the head is a neck 5, which is of a width equal to the web of the ordinary T-rail. Below the neck the rail is bifurcated, forming two webs c, 0, spaced apart as shown, and at the base of each web is a laterally extended-foot d. The base of the rail is preferiibly the same width as the ordinary T-railtbatg in' nULlle instances, the base may be of a greaterwidth if necessary. The height of the base flange is the same as that of an ordinary T-rail.

The object of making the rail in the manner above set forth'is to allow the rail to be used in connection with the ordinary T-rails having single webs, and track structures which are designed to couple with the ordinary T-rails.

By my-invention fish plates it, I can be used. as illustrated in Fig. 2, having a hearing a under the head and a bearing s" on the base flange. This is the standard type of fish plate and has projections ,l: which extend toward the neck l) of the rail so as to provide an extended bearing of the fish plate against the underside of the head of the rail. The fish plate can be secured to the rails by an ordinary bolt N having a nut n, or a wedge or other fastening can be used without departing from. the essential features of the invention.

The recess '0 formed by bifurcating the web of the rail can be utilized, as illustrated in Fig. 5, for the reception of a tongue 9' of a cross tie G, which can be secured either by a wedge m, shown in Fig. 5, or by an ordinary bolt, as shown in Fig. 2.

in Fig. 6, I have shown a connecting plate H having a flange h extending into the space a and secured to the rail by bolts In this construction, the plate can be used as a fish plate or a supporting plate, iipstead of the construction illustrated in ig. 2.

in Fig. 4, I have shown my invention as applied to a girder rail, in which A is the rail and a is the head. I) is the neck; 0', 0' are the bifurcated portions and l, l are the fish plates. H is a plate which may be used as a joint filler, which adds materially to the strength of the coupling; the bolt N pass ing through the fish plate, the rail and the filler plate H.

Thus it will be seen by the above construction, that I provide a rail which is of a greater strength for the same Weight than the ordinary T-rail, or girder rail, and the rail can be readily coupled to the ordinary rails"by the nsual type of fish plate so that my improved rail can be used, if desired, at certain points in the track where a rail which will resist severe side'strains is desirable. P

The rails can be coupled together by outside fish plates, as illusfiated in Fig. 2, or by inside fish plates, as illustrated in Fig. 6, or by a combination of the two.

11? claim:

1. A. rail having a shortneck directly under the head; a bifurcated web extending from the neck; the sections of the web being parallel with each other; the neck being of a greater width than the width of either of the webs; and a base flange exending laterally from each web.

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2. A rail having a head; a neck directly In testimony whereof, I have signed my under the head; a bifurcated web extending name to this specification, in the presence of from the neck; the neck being greater in two subscribing witnesses.

width than the width of either of the webs; .ALBERT R. CLINE.

' and a base flange extending laterally from Witnesses:

each web; the space between the webs being J 0s. H. KLEIN, substantially equal to the width of the neck. W A. BARR. 

